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Best of: Our Story – Chapter 5: The Promised Land

10.05.2019 - By Shane SamsPlay

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In this Best of Episode, we re-visit Chapter 5 of the “Our story” series.  Learn how we not only quit our jobs but bought the home of our dreams (and how you can too)!

This episode was originally published on October 31, 2017.  You can check out the original episode here:  https://flippedlifestyle.com/podcast168/

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

Shane: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work.  We’re your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams.

We’re a real family who figured out how to make our entire living online.  And now, we help other families do the same.  Are you ready to flip your life?  Alright.  Let’s get started.

What’s up, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Flipped Lifestyle podcast.  We are super excited to be with you again today to give you the fifth and final chapter of our story.  This is the story of how two teachers from Southeast Kentucky ended up building a massive online business, and we want to tell you all of the things that we did to get to this point.

For those of you who may be just tuning in, make sure you check out the last few episodes where we tell all of the backstory.

That brings us to where we’re going to talk about today.  We actually have an author that is writing a book about our story, and we thought it would be super fun to record some podcasts to tell you guys everything from the beginning so that you can get the inspiration and hope that you needed to build your own online business and create your own story.

In last week’s episode, we talked about how we discovered online business, how we figured out how to make money online, and how we made $2,700 off of the first digital product that we sold to just around 200 people, just a little bit over 200 people.  That’s all we had on the e-mail list when we made our first money online.

This week, we’re going to talk about how we scaled that first initial, digital product into the huge online business that we have today.

This is an online business that makes us hundreds of thousands of dollars in passive income, a business that lets us have total control over our lives.  We literally control every minute of our lives.  We don’t have to answer to anybody else’s schedule, don’t have to follow anyone else’s orders at a 9-to-5 or anything like that.  We have total control of our lives, and a business that lets us give our children a life that we never could have dreamed possible.

For those of you who are wondering, yes, my voice is a little shot.  I do not always sound like this, if this is the first time that you’ve ever tuned in to The Flipped Lifestyle podcast.  I am a huge University of Kentucky fan, as most of you know.  Jocelyn and I went to the University of Kentucky.  We love UK football, UK basketball and all UK sports.  Well, I went to a UK game Saturday, and my beloved Kentucky Wildcats beat the Tennessee Volunteers.  I yelled a lot and I actually lost my voice for three days.  But it’s back today and we’re going to jump in here.  We’re going to dive through it and continue this story.

Jocelyn: Alright, we told you in the last podcast about how we had launched the Elementary Librarian website, and about how I had a made a month of lesson plans just to see if they would sell.  Lo and behold, we sold over $2,000.  Then we started thinking, “Okay, how do we make this happen again and again?” I continued to write.  I did regularly scheduled content every week.  Just write about things that were happening in my library and things that were bothering me, and that I wanted to help other people with.  In the midst of all that, people would keep signing up for my email list.  I would gather more and more e-mails.

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